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Definition
to surround with armed forces, and cut-off supplies or attack
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to make an overwhelming number of requests, complaints, or comments — typically in an annoying manner and sometimes while surrounding
or:
to make an overwhelming number of requests, complaints, or comments — typically in an annoying manner and sometimes while surrounding
- Of various forms unnumber'd specters more, Centaurs, and double shapes, besiege the door.Book 6 (32% in)
- This little spot of land, which Heav'n bestows, On ev'ry side is hemm'd with warlike foes; Gaetulian cities here are spread around, And fierce Numidians there your frontiers bound; Here lies a barren waste of thirsty land, And there the Syrtes raise the moving sand; Barcaean troops besiege the narrow shore, And from the sea Pygmalion threatens more.Book 4 (6% in)
There are no more uses of "besiege" in The Aeneid.
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